Comments | engarian: Hard Day for DH

engarian

Hard Day for DH

Feb 24, 2011 05:07

Today will be a tough day for my DH. My Father-by-marriage is scheduled to have cataract surgery on one eye early this morning. We have no idea if he did the pre-op eye drops regime properly. We wrote him a chart etc for when to take what for him to check off as he went. But who knows if he really did it properly?

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pandemonium_213 February 25 2011, 01:19:03 UTC

I hope things went well for your FBM and your DH. That's a very tough situation, that is, the loss of mental capacities of an elderly parent, and of course, it will affect you.

I count myself very fortunate to have a 96 year old mother who is still active, lives independently and mentally sharp. Still, I worry about her. Just because.

engarian February 25 2011, 01:51:13 UTC

Things seem to have gone fairly well, but we'll see. There are other issues that are serious that will be discussed tomorrow and I'm not looking forward to the fallout on that topic.

I think you're very fortunate that your mother is mentally sharp at her age. My father was 85 when he died and he was mentally sharp until his last breath. My mother, on the other hand, died of Alzheimer's Disease and that was very, very bad.

- Erulisse (one L)